{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29141.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29141.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29141.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Now when returning (home from his teacher) he should get the following things, viz. a jewel (to be tied round the neck), two ear-rings, a pair of garments, a parasol, a pair of shoes, a staff, a wreath, (pounded seed of the Kara\u00f1ga fruit) for rubbing with, ointment, eye salve, a turban; (all that) for himself and for the teacher.\n2. If he cannot get it for both, only for the teacher.\n3. He then should get a piece of wood of a tree which is sacrificially pure, in a north-eastern direction\u2014\n4. Sappy (wood) if he wishes for the enjoyment of food, or for prosperity, or for splendour; dry (wood), if for holy lustre,\n5. (Wood) which is both (sappy and dry, in its different parts), if (he wishes) for both.\n6 6. Having put the piece of wood on high, and having given a cow and food to the Br\u00e2hmanas, he should perform the ceremony of shaving the beard.\n7 7. He should alter the texts so that they refer to himself.\n8 8. With Ekakl\u00eetaka (he should perform the rubbing).\n9. Having washed himself with lukewarm water, and having put on two (new) garments which have not yet been washed, with (the verse), 'Garments with fat splendour you put on, (Mitra and Varuna)' (Rig-veda I, 152, 1); he should anoint his eyes with (the words), 'The sharpness of the stone art thou; protect my eye.'\n10. With (the words), 'The sharpness of the stone\nart thou; protect my ear'\u2014he should tie on the two ear-rings.\n11. After having salved his two hands with ointment, a Br\u00e2hmana should salve his head first,\n12. A R\u00e2ganya his two arms,\n13. A Vaisya the belly,\n14. A woman her secret parts,\n15. Persons who gain their livelihood by running, their thighs.\n16. With (the formula), 'Free from pain art thou, free from pain may I become'\u2014he should put on the wreath.\n17. Not (such a wreath) which is called m\u00e2l\u00e2.\n18. If they call it m\u00e2l\u00e2, he should cause them to call it srag.\n19. With (the formula), 'The standing-places of the gods are you; protect me from all sides'\u2014he steps into the shoes, and with (the formula), 'The heaven's covering art thou'\u2014he takes the parasol.\n20. With (the formula), 'Reed thou art; from the tree thou descendest; protect me from all sides'\u2014(he takes) a staff of reed.\n21 21. Having with the hymn 'Giving life' tied the jewel to his neck and arranged the turban (on his head), he should standing put the piece of wood (on the fire).\n227:6 8, 6. 'On high' means 'not on the ground' (N\u00e2r\u00e2yana). On the gaud\u00e2nikam karma (the shaving of the beard), comp. above, Adhy\u00e2ya I, Kandik\u00e2 18. The word 'ceremony' would mean here, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, that he should perform the rite alone, without observing such prescriptions as stated above, I, 18, 7.\n227:7 Thus, instead of 'Herb! protect him!' (I, 17, 8) he is to say, 'Herb! protect me!' and so on.\n227:8 Ekakl\u00eetaka is, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana and the Prayogaratna, the seed of such a Kara\u00f1ga fruit (Pongamia Glabra, Vent.) which contains only one grain of seed. Such grains are pounded before he rubs himself therewith.\n228:21 On the hymn beginning with the words 'Giving life,' see Prof. Stenzler's note on this S\u00fbtra. Its first verse is identical with V\u00e2gasaneyi Samhit\u00e2 XXXIV, 50 (comp. also S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 1, 7), and so are most of its verses found in that Samhit\u00e2 or in the Atharva-veda; the whole of it occurs among the Rig-veda Khilas (vol. vi, p. 25, 2-12).","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 8","type":"page"}